Bernie Sanders is not a Klingon!

[trumad]

Jesus Christ on a Trailer Hitch.

One post from one member claiming Bernie ain't all that on Race--- and all hell breaks lose.

THOSE HILLARY SUPPORTERS WILL STOP AT NOTHING!

I'd say 99.9 percent of Hillary supporters know that Fucking Bernie Sanders is not a Fucking racist.

For fucking Christ Sakes.

[dembotoz]

1. maybe Vulcan...he wants us to live long and prosper

[trumad]

2. LOL

Perfect.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Definitely Not Ferengi

There are no socialist Ferengi

[gollygee]

3. We're told by this group here at DU

when it's Pres. Obama, Clinton, whoever else, that we have to allow criticism, no matter how ugly (POS used car salesman comes to mind), but when it's Sanders, no criticism is allowed. Funny.

[trumad]

6. Oh I agree---

But the comment indicating that he aint all that on race is over the top in mho.

[gollygee]

7. It said that he hasn't said enough about race given what's going on in the US

not that he is racist, just that he hasn't said enough given what's going on here. You can't see how people of color might feel that way with what's going on in the US right now?

[trumad]

8. Well look what happened.

[gollygee]

9. Well nobody is apparently allowed to criticise him

[Bonobo]

13. I've been pretty stomped on for posting videos of Hillary smiling.

Don't recall a lot of "we have to allow criticism" from some of them.

[Dawgs]

21. Example of "this group" saying no criticism is allowed for Bernie?

I would love to see it.

[gollygee]

22. The example is

that every bit of criticism gets freaked out over and sometimes misrepresented. The OP everyone is complaining about did not call Sanders racist. It said he hasn't said enough about issues of racism that are happening in the US lately, and gave some examples of racism he could say something about. It did not call him racist.

[Dawgs]

24. How about a specific example?

You know, like a quote. And more than one will be needed.

[gollygee]

25. Did I use quotation marks in my post?

We are being told through actions. If any criticism is given, there are a half dozen or more threads in response, full of outrage.

[Dawgs]

26. Got it. You have no examples of "this group" saying "no criticism is allowed" of Bernie. n/t

[gollygee]

27. I never claimed those words were used but you know that. nt

[Dawgs]

30. You didn't write...

We're told by this group here at DU when it's Pres. Obama, Clinton, whoever else, that we have to allow criticism, no matter how ugly (POS used car salesman comes to mind), but when it's Sanders, no criticism is allowed.

???

[gollygee]

31. I didn't use quotation marks

so it wasn't a quote. We are told by people's reactions when there's even mild criticism of Sanders. there are threads and threads and threads responding to a post that Sanders hasn't said enough about racism yet, and people are not only freaking out about that, they're claiming it says that Sanders is racist. That's a way of shutting down criticism.

[Sancho]

4. haha..I would have said Ferengi since Bernie is fixated on Wall Street!!

The Hillary bashing has also been as illogical as anything I've seen from the GOP. Someone could equally say (and some have) that "THOSE BERNIE SUPPORTERS WILL STOP AT NOTHING!"

For Allah's sake!!

[LiberalElite]

5. It's ok - practice for when the GOP lets loose on him nt

[Augiedog]

10. Just the beginning of Bernie bashing...

Won't be long before its "discovered" that Bernie is a member of the Bandidos motorcycle gang.

[edgineered]

11. Well now we know what the 4th grade hall monitors became.

I'm telling Mr B, you're not supposed to walk on that side of the hall!

[woo me with science]

12. Unreccing this fail of an OP.

Smearing a decades-long strong supporter of civil rights as a racist is low and despicable, and of course it's being done by our familiar, full-time defenders of corporate policy and dispensers of Third Way talking points. That's not "criticism" of the candidate, and it's not a joke. It's called lying and a smear campaign.

It's deeply ugly, and it's yet another important example of the dishonesty, moral vacancy, and manipulativeness of corporate candidates and their election campaigns.

There's a clear theme emerging in this election. Honesty and representation, versus dishonesty and manipulation.

[gollygee]

14. Nobody called him a racist

that op said that the poster thinks he hasn't said enough about issues of racism, given what's going in the US, and showed some of what's going on in the US for context. Saying he hasn't said enough about racism yet in his campaign is not calling him racist.

[woo me with science]

15. War is Peace.

The words, and the tactics, speak for themselves.

[gollygee]

16. They do but they are being misread

by people who think their candidate can't be criticized.

[ProfessorGAC]

18. Why Is This OP A Fail?

I read this OP as a criticism of the other one implying that Sanders is soft on race relations. Seems like you would support that message, not unrec it.

[trumad]

19. yeah..weird post.

I thought my Op was pretty good.

[KittyWampus]

32. Then why hasn't he reached out to those African Americans living in his state

living in his state of Vermont and made an effort to see they were/are included?

He isn't racist.

But he isn't all that.

[Dustlawyer]

33. Since Bernie doesn't make personal attacks or allow his campaign to do so,

Hillary has to use others to do it to keep her hands clean. That is not to say that Bernie supporters won't do it to Hillary, but the ones that do will have zero ties to his campaign. Bernie just doesn't operate that way.

[Renew Deal]

20. Is there a link to where this started?

I've been trying to piece together what happened. At first I thought it was some sort of public incident, but it seems like this is a DU controversy only.

[Capt. Obvious]

23. Yawn

[KittyWampus]

28. He isn't a racist. But apparently has no African Americans in Vermont on his staff

or if he does apparently none wanted to go to that opening rally.

And he is also apparently unaware of optics in politics.

[NCTraveler]

29. Is kind of funny to watch.

And it's only a couple of people. They become outraged at everything. Over ninety percent of active posters on du are voting for Sanders in the primary yet they act as if they are the extreme minority of du. Very strange.